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The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
He is Allah—there is no deity but Him. He is the Knower of
the Unseen and the Visible. He is the All-Merciful, the Most
Merciful. (Surat al-Hashr, 59:22)
Allah, the Most Gracious, manifests His infinite mercy and
favor upon whatever He wills. We can survive only through this in-
flux of visible and invisible blessings, all of which are submissive to
Allah.
Allah encompasses His creation every day through His bless-
ings. He causes millions of seeds to sprout, covers the earth's core
with a temperature of 4,500° Celsius (8,132° Fahrenheit) with this
fertile earth, pours down tons of clear water upon Earth’s surface, si-
multaneously feeds countless living beings all over the world, cre-
ates the oxygen that circulates in our lungs, and sends countless
other blessings that give life.
Allah creates every one of the 100 trillion cells that make up the
human body and then teaches every one of them their individual
tasks; places DNA, which comprises information that would fill a
million pages, in the cell; makes this system operate through pro-
tein, fat, and water molecules that He puts in a cube far smaller than
1 millimeter (0.03 inch); and gives each person a soul and keeps
them alive until He wills otherwise.
From their birth to their death, each person receives and lives
with Allah’s blessings. Some see these blessings, grasp the purpose
of their existence, and thereby devote themselves to Allah. Others
do not, and so remain ungrateful and reject serving Him. Despite

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